What Should a 21st Century School
Look Like?
• Today’s Meet – What questions do you have?
• Visual Ranking – Which standard is easiest to
integrate?
• Linoit – What should a 21st Media Center
Look like?
Gail Holmes
EOL - NCDPI
Today ….
Why are the new Information and Technology Essential
Standards important for North Carolina students and
teachers?
What are the new Information and Technology Essential
Standards and how do they relate to other areas of the
curriculum?
How are the new Information and Technology Essential
Standards aligned with the North Carolina Professional
Teaching Standards?
How do North Carolina teachers prepare to teach these
new Essential Standards?
How will North Carolina teachers ensure that students
use 21st century tools and processes in order to engage in
21st century content? How will you help prepare them?
What Should a Great 21st Century
School Library Look Like?
What Does Administrators and
Educators Value in their Library?
• “Educators believe learning is the central mission of
the school library.”
• “Calling it a library is not accurate—it’s a learning
center that has resources, When I see students
there, they’re doing research, maybe teacherdirected; I see a lot of them come in just to find
general information, to learn something—maybe not
related to school, so it goes far beyond what we
thought a library was.”
What Does Administrators and
Educators Value in their Library?
• Not only do librarians enable learning, research but
they also shape how learning takes place by helping
teachers push the boundaries and innovate.
• “Teachers do a lot of interdisciplinary teaching.... the
media specialists have enabled teachers to make that
push, to be better at taking risks, and to do things that
are normally outside of the box.”
What Does Administrators and
Educators Value in their Library?
• Libraries help shape school culture—the shared beliefs, customs, and
behaviors that define a school and that are seen as key factors in an
institution’s success. One principal’s tongue-in-cheek: “In the center part
of our school upstairs is the library and the main office is in the center
downstairs, and I always say that downstairs is where we ruin school
culture and upstairs is where we make it.”
• Educators value how the library is different from the classroom. Through
the diversity and breadth of their resources, libraries offer choice. They
provide access to technology—and digital resources—beyond the means
of most classrooms, creating opportunities for the teaching of information
and inquiry skills.
What Does Administrators and
Educators Value in their Library?
• Through technology, the library expands the world of
learning. “the library is a gateway to the outside world,” Skype
and other virtual experiences connect students with their
peers across the country and around the world.
• “The library brings people together; it is a point of
connection, ... colleague-to-colleague or student-to-student.
The kids see that... everything is a part of the library. Kids are
always eager to come to the library... they know that there is
always help available.”
“One Common Goal: Student
Learning”
-- Rutgers University researchers Ross Todd, Carol Gordon, and Ya-Ling Lu
Blooms
Taxonomy
Web 2.0 Tools
Diigo
Engage Community
CIESE
ThinkQuest
Google
Voicethread
Safety Land
Safe Kids
Standards
Digital Portraits